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Rock Lane Presents Grills Gone Wild

2025-10-03 – 2025-10-04 · Branson, MO · 📍 611 Rock Ln · State championship

Reps: EUGENE WICKHAM, SARAH WICKHAM · Prize money: $5,000.00

Grand Champion: BREWS BEFORE Q's (711.9888) · 11 teams

Reserve Champion: 🥈 BrewsCue

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711.9888 · Master Series — Overall
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706.2400 · Master Series — Overall
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705.0972 · Master Series — Overall

The contest at a glance (read off the scored boards)

How the field scored

Overall totals, every team on the board — tall stacks are where the pack sat.

How the meats cooked

Every board on one scale — the bar runs last score to first, the dot is the median.

  • Chicken 180.00 🔥
  • Pork Ribs 178.86
  • Pork 178.86
  • Brisket 180.00 🔥
157.65 180.00

Entries

11
4 judged meats

Top score

711.9888

Winning margin

5.7488
GC over RC

Field average

692.76
660.97711.99
median 694.22 · last place to winner

Perfect 180s

2 🔥

Tightest race

Chicken
3.4400 pts across the top 5

Top-10 cutoff

673.0288
660.97711.99
10th place overall

Field spread

51.0176
winner to last place

Prize money

$5,000.00
on the line

Most consistent

avg finish 2.00 across 4 meats

Double threats

7
teams with 2+ top-5 calls

Widest winning margin

Chicken
won by 2.2856 pts — Hicks from the Sticks BBQ

How hot was the win?

Top 1%
beats 99% of 4707 Master Series wins in the data

Form held

Strong
ρ = -0.73 between pre-contest rating and finish

Field strength

1604
avg power rating going in · stronger than 80% of contests

Top-rated in the field

rated 1991 pre-contest

Storylines (5 found in this contest's numbers)

Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.

An upset on the books

7-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings

The ratings favoured the top seed the other 93 times in 100

BREWS BEFORE Q'S came in rated below the field's top team, GETTIN' BASTED, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 7-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.

  • champion 1534
  • top seed 1991

A first Grand Championship

19 tracked contests to get there

This was BREWS BEFORE Q's's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 19th tracked contest.

Photo finishes

Tie closest of 13 calls decided inside half a point

Chicken places 2–3: BREWS BEFORE Q'S and GRAY WOLF BBQ tied on 177.7144 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 3–4: GRAY WOLF BBQ and GETTIN' BASTED tied on 177.7144 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 5–6: Kermit's Ex and Ambition Que tied on 176.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.

  • Chicken 2–3 · tie
  • Chicken 3–4 · tie
  • Chicken 5–6 · tie
  • Chicken 6–7 · tie

How the title was won

4 of 4 meats called to the stage

BREWS BEFORE Q'S took the title on 4 calls from 4 meats, with 1 outright win — their weakest board was pork ribs at 3rd.

  • Chicken 2nd
  • Pork Ribs 3rd
  • Pork 2nd
  • Brisket 1st

A perfect score on the table

2 perfect 180s

2 perfect 180s were scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.

  • BREWS BEFORE Q'S · Brisket
  • Hicks from the Sticks BBQ · Chicken

Score curves (score by finishing position — steep cliffs mean a spread field, flat lines a knife fight)

Category showdown (top / average / median score per meat)

Biggest rating movers (power-rating points won and lost at this contest)

Did form hold? (pre-contest rating vs overall finish — ratings called it if the dots climb to the right)

This contest over the years full contest page →

DateWhereVenueTeamsHigh scoreGrand ChampionReserve Champion
2025-10-03 ← this one Branson, MO 611 Rock Ln 11 711.9888 BREWS BEFORE Q's BrewsCue
2026-10-23 Branson, MO

What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)

Category1st5th10th
Chicken180.0000176.5600169.6916
Pork Ribs178.8572175.4172167.3828
Pork178.8572173.1316170.8228
Brisket180.0000176.5600166.2284

Official results on kcbs.us ↗

Master Series

Overall

11 entries · top 711.9888 · median 694.2172

#TeamScore
1 BREWS BEFORE Q'S 711.9888
2 BrewsCue 706.2400
3 GETTIN' BASTED 705.0972
4 Kermit's Ex 702.2400
5 WOOD HOOK BBQ 701.6916
6 Ambition Que 694.2172
7 GRAY WOLF BBQ 692.5376
8 TAILGATE GUYS BBQ 689.0400
9 Hicks from the Sticks BBQ 683.3028
10 BJ's BBQ 673.0288
11 Motor Boatin BBQ 660.9712

Chicken

11 entries · top 180.0000 · median 176.5600 · 🔥 perfect 180

#TeamScore
1 Hicks from the Sticks BBQ 180.0000 🔥
2 BREWS BEFORE Q'S 177.7144
3 GRAY WOLF BBQ 177.7144
4 GETTIN' BASTED 177.7144
5 Kermit's Ex 176.5600
6 Ambition Que 176.5600
7 BrewsCue 176.5600
8 WOOD HOOK BBQ 172.5600
9 TAILGATE GUYS BBQ 171.9772
10 BJ's BBQ 169.6916
11 Motor Boatin BBQ 157.6456

Pork Ribs

11 entries · top 178.8572 · median 174.2628

#TeamScore
1 BrewsCue 178.8572
2 TAILGATE GUYS BBQ 177.7028
3 BREWS BEFORE Q'S 175.4172
4 WOOD HOOK BBQ 175.4172
5 Kermit's Ex 175.4172
6 GETTIN' BASTED 174.2628
7 Motor Boatin BBQ 170.8228
8 GRAY WOLF BBQ 168.5488
9 Ambition Que 168.5372
10 Hicks from the Sticks BBQ 167.3828
11 BJ's BBQ 164.5488

Pork

11 entries · top 178.8572 · median 173.1200

#TeamScore
1 GRAY WOLF BBQ 178.8572
2 BREWS BEFORE Q'S 178.8572
3 WOOD HOOK BBQ 177.1544
4 GETTIN' BASTED 174.2628
5 TAILGATE GUYS BBQ 173.1316
6 Hicks from the Sticks BBQ 173.1200
7 Ambition Que 173.1200
8 BrewsCue 173.1200
9 Kermit's Ex 172.5484
10 BJ's BBQ 170.8228
11 Motor Boatin BBQ 166.2628

Brisket

11 entries · top 180.0000 · median 176.0000 · 🔥 perfect 180

#TeamScore
1 BREWS BEFORE Q'S 180.0000 🔥
2 GETTIN' BASTED 178.8572
3 Kermit's Ex 177.7144
4 BrewsCue 177.7028
5 WOOD HOOK BBQ 176.5600
6 Ambition Que 176.0000
7 BJ's BBQ 167.9656
8 GRAY WOLF BBQ 167.4172
9 Motor Boatin BBQ 166.2400
10 TAILGATE GUYS BBQ 166.2284
11 Hicks from the Sticks BBQ 162.8000

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